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Help with Formatting Hard Drive

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To format a drive in Windows Disk Management, you actually right click the Unallocated space and create a new volume

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I just build my new PC yesterday and installed Windows 10 today. My BIOS sees my 2Tb hard drive, but it won't come up in Windows. I've tried to follow steps from other people, but they all say to click Format, but that doesn't even show up for me. I feel like I am missing a step, can anyone help?

This is what my device management page looks like, and from what I can understand, my hard drive should be on the top part with my SSD.

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To format a drive in Windows Disk Management, you actually right click the Unallocated space and create a new volume

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1 minute ago, LionSpeck said:

To format a drive in Windows Disk Management, you actually right click the Unallocated space and create a new volume

Thanks! I wasn't sure what that did and didn't want to start clicking random things, but it worked!

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